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Business Quotes
"I come from a family that has been here for almost 200 years. My ancestors started a very dangerous gunpowder business in 1802, and my great- grandfather and his father were both killed in gunpowder explosions."
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"'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo."
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"Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars."
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"In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs."
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"I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me."
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"Well, rates would go up whether you deregulate or not, and of course, the rates that are going up right now on the electricity side are still within the regulated framework."
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"We like to be the largest outside investor, and the first outside investor."
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"'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
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"Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping."
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"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."
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"Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest."
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"Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce."
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"There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today."
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"It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people."
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"Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business."
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"Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you."
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"The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected."
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"I am going to be announcing today that we will have a business delegation come to this country sometime in the future where we will bring businesses from America to Morocco to show them the vast business opportunities here."
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"This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances."
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"And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off."
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"Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business."
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"He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency."
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"Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving."
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"Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember."
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"Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?"
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"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
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"Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging."
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"No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management."
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"I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself."
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"We were not given any statistics as to how many records were pressed on the blue label. I used to ask Bob Shad how we were going to get paid from record sales and what I got for an answer was not to worry about the business end of the deal."
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"I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business."
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"This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me."
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